The volume contains a collection of 39 papers from the Twelfth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics that was held in Reykjavík, June 14th-16th, 1990. The volume was published in Reykjavík 1991 by the Linguistic Institute of the University of Iceland. Editor: Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson. Associate editors: Þorsteinn G. Indriðason and Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson.